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San Marco 3268, Venice, 30124, Italy
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Cannaregio canal at dusk
Terracota bull
The Canals Of Venice
Parking Lot for Gondolas
I'll be arriving Venice in Santa Lucia Station. Where can I buy a pre-paid SIM for a GSM mobile phone? Any idea how much does it cost now? Which network would you recommend? I'll be traveling to Bolzano, Cinque Terre, Florence, Rome and Naples.
Thanks,
Raymond
Just got back from Italy on Tuesday. My wife has T-Mobile and we bought a SIM card at the TIM Center. I will tell you that it was a real pain getting additional minutes for it. Everyone tells you that it is very easy and that any Tabacchi shop can do it. FALSE. Most Tabacchi shops will refer you to the TIM center - regardless of whether T-Mobile or AT&T. I finally found that at train stations, at the "regional train" ticket machines, you can have minutes added to your TIM SIM card. That was a big help. Next time, I will buy an international calling card and not even deal with a cell phone.
Thank you for your reply.
How much does the SIM card cost? What is the minimum credit to have? We are trying to decide if we should bring our phones or not.
Raymond
Check this site out:
http://www.prepaidgsm.net/en/operators.html
It answers a lot of your questions about price. Most SIM cards range from €5 - €25 and include some sort of credit. Remember that incoming calls are free when you are in the native country.
At the foot of Piazza S.Marco along the Grand Canal, there's a gondola station. From this vantage point, there's a beautiful view of the canal, the parked gondolas and Dorsoduro and the church.
Everyone and their brother has taken this picture or has seen this view on postcards and screen savers, but like any good vantage point, it's worth it.
A part of each people’s imaginary, gondolas are present all over Venice. It seems that their only use now is travelling tourists for the mandatory pictures. I never used them, but from the bridges it is easy to notice something missing in the cliché: the boatmen don’t sing anymore. Well, with so many tourists around maybe that must be considered a progress…
go to the top of the Campanile. You get great views of venice, Make sure you take a camera.
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The Picture is the view from the tower. I miss travelling on the boats and looking at the different Islands in Venice.
In an attempt to make sure that tourists go to see more than just the Palazzo Ducale and San Marco, the city of Venice invented several museum passes.
We stayed in town a week therefore our obvious choice was the Museum Pass. Costing in May 2004 ?15.50 for adults, ?10.00 for students, the tickets allowed us visit to each of the following attractions: the Museums of St Mark?s Square (Palazzo Ducale, Museo Correr, Museo Archeologico, Biblioteca Marciana), the Museums of the 18th century culture (Ca? Rezzonico, Palazzo Mocenigo, Casa Goldoni), and the Islands Museums - Museo del Merletto (Burano) and Museo del Vetro (Murano).
If you are going to spend in Venice 2 or 3 days then the Museum Card is for you. It costs ?11.00 for adults, ?5.50 for students and gives access to the Museums of St Mark?s Square (Palazzo Ducale, Museo Correr, Museo Archeologico, Biblioteca Marciana).
Here are some books I read to prepare for my last trip to Italy...
Miss Garnet's Angel by Sally Vickers – oh such a treat! I recommend reading this before you leave and visiting some of the spots the author highlights. (older English lady leaves England after the death of her friend to start a new life in Venice...)
Time Out for Venice
Top Ten DK guidebooks for Venice.
Collected Traveler for Venice by Barrie Kerper.
Out of this Century: Confessions of an Art Addict by Peggy Guggenheim. If you want to see how the other half lives. Talk about the roaring 20s. Her life story, and the stories about the lives of the expats in the '20s and '30s, are what make us have such romantic notions of chucking it all and moving to Europe. There's that little detail about either being an heiress or having latent artistic talent – must put that on the list of Things to Do.
World of Venice by Jan Morris. A must-buy before you visit Venice.
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